September 2010 Highlights

Novels
1. The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend (Penguin Classics, 2010) / Peter Ackroyd
2. Nashville Chrome (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) / Rick Bass
3. The Matter with Morris (HarperCollins Canada, 2010) / David Bergen
4. Waiting for Joe (Random House Canada, 2010) / Sandra Birdsell
5. Separate Beds (Penguin, 2010) / Elizabeth Buchan
6. City of Tranquil Light (Henry Holt, 2010) / Bo Caldwell
7. Our Kind of Traitor (Viking, 2010) / John le Carré
8. Practical Jean (McClelland & Stewart, 2010) / Trevor Cole
9. By Nightfall (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) / Michael Cunningham
10. Room (Little, Brown, 2010) / Emma Donoghue

11. The Brave (Little, Brown, 2010) / Nicholas Evans
12. Crossbones (Riverhead Books, 2011) / Nuruddin Farah
13. Kamchatka (trans. from the Spanish by Frank Wynne) (Atlantic Books, 2010) / Marcelo Figueras
14. Madame Bovary (trans. from the French by Lydia Davis) (Viking Adult, 2010) / Gustave Flaubert
15. Fall of Giants (Dutton/Macmillan, 2010) / Ken Follett
16. Freedom (Fourth Estate, 2010) / Jonathan Franzen
17. The Lady Matador’s Hotel (Simon & Schuster, 2010) / Cristina Garcia
18. The Widow’s Tale (Pantheon, 2010) / Julia Glass
19. To the End of the Land (trans. from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen) (Alfred A. Knopf/Jonathan Cape, 2010) / David Grossman
20. Ape House (Spiegel & Grau, 2010) / Sara Gruen

21. The Small Hand (Profile, 2010) / Susan Hill
22. Fame (trans. from the German, Ruhn, by Carol Brown Janeway) (Pantheon, 2010) / Daniel Kehlmann
23. The Day of Small Things (Dell, 2010) / Vicki Lane
24. The Wrong Blood (trans. from the Spanish by John Cullen) (Other Press, 2010) / Manuel de Lope
25. The Golden Mean (first published by Random House of Canada in 2009) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010) / Annabel Lyon
26. Trick of the Dark (Little, Brown, 2010) / Val McDermid
27. Lovesong (Allen & Unwin, 2010) / Alex Miller
28. Adam and Eve (HarperCollins Publishers, 2010) / Sena Jeter Naslund
29. Bound (Bloomsbury USA, 2010) / Antonya Nelson
30. All the Hopeful Lovers (Quercus, 2010) / William Nicholson

31. Salvation City (Penguin Group USA, 2010) / Sigrid Nunez
32. Between Summer’s Longing and Winter’s End: The Story of a Crime (trans. from the Swedish by Paul Norlen) (Pantheon, 2010) / Leif GW Persson
33. Lights Out in Wonderland (Faber & Faber, 2010) / DBC Pierre
34. A Secret Kept (St. Martin’s Press, 2010) / Tatiana De Rosnay
35. Luka and the Fire of Life (Jonathan Cape, 2010) / Salman Rushdie
36. Heartstone (Mantle, 2011) / C.J. Sansom
37. Walking to Hollywood (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Will Self
38. A Curable Romantic (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010) / Joseph Skibell
39. Safe Haven (Grand Central Publishing, 2010) / Nicholas Sparks
40. Man in the Woods (HarperCollins Publishers, 2010) / Scott Spencer

41. The Anatomy of Ghosts (Michael Joseph, 2010) / Andrew Taylor
42. An Irish Country Courtship (Forge Books, 2010) / Patrick Taylor
43. Nourishment (Picador, 2010) / Gerard Woodward

First Novels
1. Safe from the Sea (Unbridled Books, 2010) / Peter Geye
2. The Bells (Crown, 2010) / Richard Harvell
3. Up from the Blue (HarperCollins Publishers, 2010) / Susan Henderson
4. Russian Winter (Harper, 2010) / Daphne Kalotay
5. Sister (Piatkus Books, 2011) / Rosamund Lupton
6. The Wilding (Graywolf Press, 2010) / Benjamin Percy
7. Vestments (Milkweed, 2010) / John Reimringer

Stories
1. You Don’t Have to Say (Tindal Street Press, 2010) / Alan Beard
2. My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (Penguin, 2010) / Kathryn Bernheimer (eds.)
3. Quiet As They Come (Ig Publishing, 2010) / Angie Chau
4. A Man Melting (Random House Australia, 2011) / Craig Cliff
5. Extraordinary Renditions (Coffee House Press, 2010) / Andrew Ervin
6. Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (Penguin Group USA, 2010) / Danielle Evans
7. What I Didn’t See (Small Beer Press, 2010) / Karen Joy Fowler
8. Bliss and Other Stories (University of Nebraska Press, 2010) / Ted Gilley
9. Foster (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Claire Keegan
10. Gold Boy, Emerald Girl (Random House/Fourth Estate, 2010) / Yiyun Li

11. Light Lifting (Biblioasis, 2010) / Alexander MacLeod
12. Sourland (Ecco, 2010) / Joyce Carol Oates
13. The Best American Short Stories 2010 (Mariner Books, 2010) / Richard Russo & Heidi Pitlor (eds.)
14. Years of Red Dust: Stories of Shanghai (St. Martin’s Press, 2010) / Qiu Xiaolong
15. Walking to Hollywood (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Will Self
16. Please Come Back to Me (University of Georgia Press, 2010) / Jessica Treadway
17. Self Portraits: Fictions (W.W. Norton, 2010) / Frederick Tuten

Poetry
1. Selected Poems (Jonathan Cape, 2010) / Robert Bringhurst
2. Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines (Coffee House Press, 2010) / Julie Carr
3. Callings (Penguin, 2010) / Carl Dennis
4. Ten New Poets: Spread the Word (Bloodaxe Books, 2010) / Bernadine Evaristo and Daljit Nagra (eds.)
5. A Fool’s Errand (The Gallery Press, 2010) / Dermot Healy
6. Human Chain (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Seamus Heaney
7. Swan: Poems and Prose Poems (Beacon Press, 2010) / Mary Oliver
8. The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2010) / Patrick Crotty (ed.)
9. Break the Glass (Copper Canyon, 2010) / Jean Valentine

Nonfiction
1. When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) / Gal Beckerman
2. Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin (Jonathan Cape, 2010) / Bruce Chatwin (eds. Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare)
3. The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma (Allen Lane, 2010) / Gurcharan Das
4. Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Frank Dikötter
5. The English Is Coming: How One Language is Sweeping the World (Touchstone, 2010) / Leslie Dunton-Downer
6. The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women: A Memoir (William Heinemann, 2010) / James Ellroy
7. My Father’s Fortune: A Life (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Michael Frayn
8. Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper (Thames & Hudson, 2010) / Alexandra Harris
9. Strictly English: The Correct Way to Write ... and Why It Matters (Random House, 2010) / Simon Heffer
10. Prejudices: The Complete Series (ed. Marion Rodgers) (Library of America, 2010) / H.L. Mencken

11. Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being Old (Virago Press, 2010) / Jane Miller
12. The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief (Picador, 2010) / V.S. Naipaul
13. Trying to Please: A Memoir (Axios Press, 2010) / John Julius Norwich
14. Mumbai Fables (Princeton University Press, 2010) / Gyan Prakash
15. Stalin Ate My Homework (Sceptre, 2010) / Alexei Sayle
16. The Uses of Pessimism and the Danger of False Hope (Oxford University Press USA, 2010) / Roger Scruton
17. Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon (Yale University Press, 2010) / Nigel Smith
18. Half a Life (McSweeney’s, 2010) / Darin Strauss
19. Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl (HarperPress, 2010) / Donald Sturrock
20. The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century (Simon & Schuster, 2010) / Peter Watson

21. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (Random House, 2010) / Isabel Wilkinson